The Art of Duck Calls!

"Little Miss Judy抯 Believe it Or Not?br />

This was daddy抯 favorite duck call and sometimes he used it and sometimes he didn抰. He could make all kinds of noises without any aids!






My father was an avid bird hunter. I was very fortunate to have spent time with him as he went on his bird hunting escapades. He loved to hunt doves, quails, quails, ducks, and crows. His favorite as well as mine was the art of hunting ducks. I call it an art, because that抯 actually what it is. I think that you will agree especially after your read this article.


The first thing you needed to know was how to dress properly. When you went hunting for ducks a little swimming could be in your future. Some duck hunters call it 搘ading in your waders.?However in my case it was most always swimming in my waders, which means water outside and inside of them. For those of you that are not duck hunters then I need to make you aware that this art is preformed during the cold months. So therefore when you got wet anywhere it was a 揷old to the bone feeling!?


As a child I was very cold natured. So therefore, I always overdressed, which meant I was extra heavy once I took the plunge into the icy waters. However, daddy didn抰 seem to mind too much. It never seemed to bother him as he fish me out of the water.


The best part about duck hunting was the calls that my father made to attract the ducks. Now that I think about it there were other accomplished calls that he preformed to get the moose and crow抯 attention. However my absolute favorite was the 揌uman siren call.?He could stick his head out of a car window, make his siren call, and over to the side of the road the cars would go. Daddy would do this when he was in a hurry to get someplace or if he had a slowpoke driver in front of him. I just loved! It was so cool! I know I am rambling, but sometimes when certain things come to mind you just have to share them. Now, back to my father signature the duck calls.


My father had four favorite duck calls. The first was called 搇onely duck call.?This one is kind of self-explanatory, when a duck flew by or was approaching daddy made this call. It was suppose to get them to fly towards the duck blind in search of friendship. At least that抯 what daddy called it. The second duck call was 損lenty of food call.?He used this call when he had numerous ducks flying over. The third call sounded like the first one. It was called the 揑抦 interested duck call.?The fourth and last that I can remember was the 搇ast chance duck call.?This according to daddy was your best shot at getting the attention of the ducks that just flew straight by without even looking down. He called it 揕ast Chance?and I called it his 揇esperation Call,?which was to me the strangest of all. It really didn抰 even sound like a duck call it was more like a cussing call!


The bottom line was this when my father took aimed he only miss few. Since I was the fetcher most of the time I was always on 搑eady go!?As my father got older we use to go to Lake Mayer to feed the ducks. All I could think about was how much trouble we both would be in if only these ducks knew the real story.


Quack Quack!


Thanks for reading! Captain Judy